Patent CA-2378772-A1 (CA)
Inventor: WOODS JOHN TIMOTHY
IPC: F03G7/10
Filed: 2002-03-28
Abstract: In previous efforts to construct a weight motor, 'equal and opposite' reactions have thwarted success. In the design of this motor, two shafts (a sun shaft and a moon shaft) with fixed bearing/journal positions, and their respective wheels, flank a middle 'floating' (planetary) shaft and its gears, and through their unequal positions of support, split the force into a dominant force (which determines the order of rotation) and a recessive force, which must follow the dominant order. On the middle, floating, planetary shaft are two gears: one (Mercury gear) with a very small diameter, and a second (Jupiter gear), which is very large when compared to the first. Both gears travel in unison around the floating, non-anchored, shaft. On one side of the floating shaft is a large (sun) gear, which engages the smaller of the two floating gears. The apparent weight (whether gravitational, or induced by some other directional force) of the middle shaft assembly imposes pressure against the periphery of the large outer gear, causing it to rotate away from the float assembly. Paired with the large outer gear is a similarly large sprocket, which sends its rotational power to a much smaller (moon) sprocket on the opposite flank of the middle floating assembly via a transfer chain. The small 'hub' moon sprocket rotates in unison with a large moon gear fixed to the same shaft. If the sun sprocket is the same diameter as the sun gear, the ratio of the hub sprocket to its complementary large gear is the same as the ratio of the small inner floating gear to its large outer counterpart. However, if the sun sprocket is a larger diameter than the sun gear, the moon sprocket may be larger also, so that the necessary ratios are maintained. The torque which is generated by the extremely large wheels on one side of the system are enough to force the power through the system as continuing rotational energy, such that the small middle Mercury gear is forced to continue to 'climb' the largest gear, producing the required harmony of rotations throughout the system and holding the middle assembly to a relatively fixed attitude of engagement. Because the large sun wheel on one side of the floating system supports more of the pressure exerted against the floating assembly than does the small opposite wheels assembly, it is able to send surplus rotational energy through the system, such that power may be drawn off one or more of the wheels, and/or the system may be allowed to accelerate.     The motions and forces generated can be perpetuated so long as the same directional pressure is exerted against the middle shaft. If the pressure is reversed, the directions of all wheels and chain reverse also. Thus we see that the device is not strictly a weight motor, as artificial 'weight' can be induced from any attitude of system placement - whether in a strong gravitational field or not, whether in space, or in air, or in water, or in some other fluid medium -there needs not be an 'up' and 'down.' The efficiencies of the motor system may be improved through introducing additional planetary and lunar/moon elements (planet-moon vectors) to the in-common gears and sprockets of the single sun shaft. Multiple planet-moon vectors can radiate about the sun shaft, whose rotations induce greater relative pressure differentials than can be achieved through the employment of only one planet-moon complement.   Because pressure is the only necessary volition for such a motor, many pressure source options are available to us: pneumatic 'ram', hydraulic 'ram', magnetic (natural or electro-), thermal contraction/expansion, variable floatation actuators (e.g. tidal, flood, drought), or barometric.